Abstract
Governmentality and Counter-Hegemony in BangladeshS.M. Shamsul AlamNew York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 215ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-137-53714-0
 Perhaps a mere coincidence, yet I consider it a great intellectual benefit that while reading S.M. Shamsul Alam’s Governmentality and Counter-Hegemony in Bangladesh, I was reading Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire and Shaheen Akter’s Talash. This simultaneous reading is beneficial since the texts, although in different forms and genres, interrogate the contested histories of Bengali nation, nationality, and the state, Bangladesh. Alam’s main focus is the state. Divided into ten chapters, ...
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